Agents Best Practices skill for Codex
Provider-neutral Agent Skill for Codex, Claude Code, and agentic harness design.
How to install Agents Best Practices in Codex
In Codex, ask the built-in skill installer for it:
$skill-installer install https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practicesType this in Codex: $skill-installer is the skill installer built into Codex, and it downloads the skill from GitHub. Restart Codex if the skill doesn't show up. Check the repo README for any setup the skill needs. Source: Codex skills docs.
Or copy the skill folder (the one with SKILL.md) into ~/.agents/skills to use it in every project, or into .agents/skills in a repo to share it with that repo. Codex picks up new skills automatically. (where Codex loads skills)
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What it contains
Skills (1)
agents-best-practices— Use this skill when designing, generating an MVP blueprint for, auditing, troubleshooting, refactoring, or explaining an agentic harness for any domain. Covers provider-neutral agent architecture for OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI-compatible APIs: agent…
About this listing
Agents Best Practices is a community collection of agent skills on GitHub by DenisSergeevitch: folders with a SKILL.md file, the format Codex loads skills from. Its README mentions Codex. It passed the CodexStacks quality filter for skills (at least 100 stars, pushed in the last 90 days, not a fork or a list, and at least one SKILL.md with a name and description). OpenAI hasn't reviewed it, but it passed our Codex install check on Oct 25, 2026 (an install and load check, not a code review). From its files we found 1 skill. It's one of 137 listings in the Creativity category (category assigned by CodexStacks from the repo's topics and description). It also appears in best Codex plugins for design and UI.
Agents Best Practices FAQ
How do I install Agents Best Practices in Codex?
In Codex, type $skill-installer install https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices. $skill-installer is the skill installer built into Codex (Codex skills docs). Or copy the skill folder (the one with SKILL.md) into ~/.agents/skills to use it in every project, or into .agents/skills in a repo to share it with that repo. Codex picks up new skills automatically.
Is Agents Best Practices an official Codex skill?
No. Agents Best Practices is a community repo on GitHub by DenisSergeevitch. It passed the CodexStacks quality filter, but OpenAI hasn't reviewed it, but it passed our Codex install check on Oct 25, 2026 (an install and load check, not a code review), so read the code before you install it.
What does Agents Best Practices include?
From its manifest and repo files, Agents Best Practices includes 1 skill: agents-best-practices.
Details
- Type
- Skill
- Category
- Creativity (assigned by us)
- Source
- Community
- Author
- DenisSergeevitch
- License
- MIT
- GitHub stars
- 2,404 (at last sync)
- Last push
- 2026-10-19
- GitHub topics
- agent-skill, agentic-workflows, agents, ai-agents, anthropic, claude, claude-code, mcp, prompt-engineering
- Source
- https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/agents-best-practices
- Listed via
- GitHub search: Codex skills (SKILL.md)
- Install check by CodexStacks
- Passed on Oct 25, 2026 with Codex CLI 0.163.0: Codex loaded its skills. proof · how we check
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